English Words: B
31,241 words · Page 43 of 625
Swinging the working leg between front and back through first position, usually in conjunction with grands battements or attitudes and involving seesaw-like shifting of the upper body in opposition to the legs.
Balarama, son of Vasudeva, and Rohini, brother of Subhadra, and Krishna, who uses a plough as his weapon.
An index used to calculate the relative advantage or disadvantage of a country in a certain class of goods.
The tendency for consumer prices to be systematically higher in more developed countries than in less developed countries.
Manilkara bidentata, a large South American tree that yields latex and edible yellow berries.
A freshwater lake in Hungary, the largest lake in Central Europe, and one of the region's foremost tourist destinations.
The red roselike flower of the pomegranate, having a bitter taste and sometimes used as an astringent in folk medicine.
A protecting ruffle or frill, as of silk or lace, sewn close to the lower edge of a skirt on the inside.
A Filipino stew of beef slow-cooked until tender, especially in the cuisine of Visayas and Mindanao.
In pre-Islamic Turkic cultures, a stone laid at the tomb of a warrior which symbolized an enemy they had killed in their lifetime, with the number laid being equal to the number of enemies slain.
A variant of the game of chess, with a novel board shape with 70 squares, and each player commanding a full chess army minus one pawn. There is no castling, and promotion squares are specially defined.
An intoxicating beverage made by soaking the bark of the leguminous tree Lonchocarpus violaceus in honey and water and fermenting it.
A town on the Clutha River in South Otago, New Zealand, which is the administrative centre for Clutha District.
A village and civil parish in Mid Sussex district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ3030).
A false balcony, or railing at the outer plane of a window-opening reaching to the floor, and resembling a balcony when the window is open.
The act of jumping between the balconies of two hotel rooms; especially of tourists in Spain.
A half-cup bra, generally with a low horizontal cut, designed to be worn under a low-cut top.
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The English alphabetical index for the letter B contains 31,241 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 625 pages, and you are currently viewing page 43. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
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